2016-09-03

What Happens in an Internet Minute in 2016 (infographic)

Courtesy of VisualCapitalist.com: Platforms such as the ones listed above are comparable in magnitude to other mega-sized companies, but without the intense capital expenditures, debt, or hard costs. That’s why Alphabet, Google’s parent company, can spend over a billion dollars each year on “moonshots.”

The full stats on what happens every internet minute:

701,389 logins on Facebook

69,444 hours watched on Netflix

150 million emails sent

1,389 Uber rides

527,760 photos shared on Snapchat

51,000 app downloads on Apple’s App Store

$203,596 in sales on Amazon.com

120+ new Linkedin accounts

347,222 tweets on Twitter

28,194 new posts to Instagram

38,052 hours of music listened to on Spotify

1.04 million vine loops

2.4 million search queries on Google

972,222 Tinder swipes

2.78 million video views on Youtube

20.8 million messages on WhatsApp

This volume of data, or information, is part of the reason that these same companies are prioritizing the ability to process and interpret big data more than ever before.